Mexico avoids gas emission targets in climate plan - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Mexico avoids gas emission targets in climate plan
Fri May 25, 2007 10:48PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico promised to plant 250 million trees this
year and get aging trucks and buses off the roads in a plan to fight
global warming launched on Friday, but did not set clear greenhouse gas
emissions targets.

President Felipe Calderon, handing out trees at a ceremony to promote
his national climate change strategy, said there would be cleaner
gasoline, more wind energy and more use of solar power in houses,
especially in Mexico's sun-baked north.

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But environmental group Greenpeace criticized the strategy, saying it
lacked firm targets to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

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Calderon, a former energy minister, also said he wanted to increase
Mexico's wind power generation tenfold. Mexico has a naturally windy
zone in the south where wind farms already exist.

The plan also envisions increasing independent power generation and
co-generation alongside the state oil and gas monopoly Pemex.

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